Articles by: Dermot Crean

THE latest Kerry Businesswomen’s Network event took place in Tralee last Wednesday in Ballygarry House Hotel. KBN in collaboration with ‘Moving On’ — the employment programme for women in Kerry — brought Karen O’Reilly, founder of Employmum and one of Silicon Republic’s ten ‘Future of Work’ Influencers to Kerry to talk […]

BISHOP Ray Browne is inviting all who have worked in the developing world or on the missions to an Evening of Celebration on Tuesday, October 22 at 8pm in St John’s Parish Centre, Tralee. Many people in the diocese have worked with NGOs as development workers, with Viatores Christi, Trocaire, […]

A TRALEE woman will launch her first book on Thursday, October 24, at 6.30pm in Tralee Library. In 2013, Úna-Minh Kavanagh, a young journalist and content creator, was racially abused and spat upon in Dublin’s city centre. Having dealt with racism throughout her young life, Úna-Minh had finally had enough. […]

FESTIVE scenes and images of Kerry at Christmas adorn the new set of Christmas cards launched by the Kerry Hospice Foundation last night. Members of the Kerry Camogie team which won the Junior All-Ireland final this year were present with Kerry footballer David Moran for the launch of the cards […]

Master Classic Final & Club Singles Results & Fixtures 13.10.19 Results: Master Classic Final 2019 (Kerryman) 1st Michael Sheehy (11) 42pts 2nd Eamon Fitzgerald (17) 41pts 3rd David Fitzgerald (3) 41pts 4th Patrick Stack (7) 37pts Best Gross: Eoghan O’Donnell (0) 36pts CSS 37pts Club Singles: 1st Michael Davis O’Donnell […]

Tralee RFC Match Reports U18’s Saturday 12th October Killarney V Tralee-Listowel Listowel-Tralee boys recorded a second victory in the Munster U18s Conference on Saturday. We played into the breeze in the first half but started well, dominating possession for the first quarter. Our first try was the result of concerted […]

SCÓR: We are looking for performers in Solo Singing, Instrumental, Recitation and Novelty Acts/Comedy to represent the Club in both Scòr Sinsear (over 18s) & Scòr Na nÒg (over 13 & U17 on Jan 1st 2020).  Club Scòr Instructor this season is Tim Landers. Anyone interested in participating should text […]

MERCY Mounthawk students had a successful weekend at the Munster Senior Schools Gala – at the UL Arena on Sunday. Sara Lucid came first in the Girls 15-16 100m breaststroke while Girls 14 – 16 200 Freestyle Relay team of Sara Lucid, Alex Perez, Ava Gannon and Grace Reidy and the […]

THE newly-established Kerry College of Further Education and Training is collaborating again with Code Institute to offer an intensive classroom-based delivery of their online coding boot camp to train 14 local candidates to become junior software developers in just 15 weeks. In a first for Kerry, the accelerated bootcamp programme […]

GARDAI are trying to identify the person who stole a large plastic ice-cream cone from outside a filling station in Tralee two weeks ago. They are examining CCTV footage from O’Connor’s filling station at Rathass from the early hours of Wednesday, October 2. Speaking on Radio Kerry’s Talkabout programme on Monday, […]

Alan Cantwell on Garveys Tralee Warriors victory at the weekend… Garvey’s Tralee Warriors reignited their Super League campaign in some style on Saturday night with a devastating display to overpower and overwhelm DCU Saints in the Phoenix Sports Complex in Carrickmacross. The Warriors were simply in a different class to […]

Senior Football Championship     St. Brendan’s will play Legion in the quarter final of the Senior Football Championship on Saturday next October 19th in Austin Stack Park at 5.15pm. Extra time will be played if necessary. Na Gaeil Ladies    Well done to the Na Gaeil Girls U14 Football Team that won […]

Lotto There was no winner of our Club Lotto Jackpot on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 05, 10, 15 & 17. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Mary Jordan Blennerville, James O’Connor  Lohercannon, Mike and Eileen O’Connor Annagh, Jack O’Halloran c/o Mono Ryle and Denis Foley Kerin’s Park. Next […]

SUPPORT US TO WIN THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO SELL OUR CLUB LOTTO TICKETS IN ROCK ST. POST OFFICE FROM  APRIL 2020. We are asking that all Kerins O’ Rahilly’s families and friends support Rock St. Post Office. This would give us every possibility of winning this competition over the next […]

Well Done to St Kieran’s GAA Well done to St Kieran’s GAA and our Ballymac players who qualified to the County Senior Championship Quarter Final next week. On Sunday next the 20th October St Kieran’s play South Kerry in Fitzgerald Stadium at 2pm. We wish Jimmy Keane and the team […]

U6 GIRLS AND BOYS: Our u6 boys and girls had a great session last Sunday. Under the watchful eyes of all their coaches they went through their paces with great enthusiasm and gusto. Among those to impress were our newcomers Mia, Aoife, Annalise, Brian, Conaill and Leon. See you all […]

Annual Camogie Review:  Organisers Suzanne and Carmel had an encouraging turnout of interested people at the 2019 Annual Camogie Review meeting on Friday.   Thus was our annual end-of-season review and pre-season planning meeting. We welcome all who helped out in 2019. We particularly wanted to see new faces who would […]

THE community came out in force on Sunday morning for the inaugural Run Ballymac event from St Brendan’s community centre. With glorious sunshine, conditions were perfect for the half marathon, 10k, 5k and family run events put on by Ballymacelligott GAA Club. Around 350 people of all ages registered for the […]

A MEETING will take place next week about rising insurance costs threatening the future of small businesses in Tralee. Tralee Chamber Alliance in association with Bank of Ireland are hosting an event entitled ‘Business Insurance – where to from here?’ on Monday, October 21 next from 6pm in the Bank […]

FIANNA Fáil TD for Kerry John Brassil has written to the Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief to request emergency funding for families in Tralee whose homes have been affected by recent heavy rainfall. More than a dozen houses in O’Connor’s Terrace in Boherbee had to […]

AFTER some local speculation, Golden Discs have officially confirmed that they will open their first store in Kerry on Saturday, October 19th. The store will be located in unit 2 Central Plaza, Abbey Court Tralee and will employ six staff, doubling that number for the festive trading period. Golden Discs […]

Mike O’Halloran was at the Acorn Life U21 Kerry County hurling semi-final between Kenmare/Kilgarvan/Dr Crokes and Causeway on Saturday in Austin Stack Park… Kenmare/Kilgarvan/Dr Crokes 2-15 Causeway 1-15 Causeway had the better start to the game when they went into a three point lead before the south Kerry boys had […]

PUPILS at Presentation Primary School are once again getting a chance to show their artistic side by taking part in Year 2 of the Creative Schools Initiative. The theme is “Shape and Space”, so they decided to look at the space we occupy predominantly in our lives and what kind […]

IN case you didn’t notice, there was a lot of rain last night and this morning! There was a Status Yellow Rainfall warning in effect for Kerry but it has now been lifted. There has been flooding in the Boherbee/Clash area of town at the filling station near the Horan […]

A LINE-UP consisting of the best of local ballad/ folk musicians and singers will entertain at a special fundraising concert this December at The Ashe Hotel. It’s a who’s who of the local scene appearing with Spailpín, Flight of Earls, Ronnie Ryan, Sligo & Shenanigans, Joe & Pam, Dreams of […]

IF you enjoy waking up to Ireland AM on Virgin Media One, then this day of beauty, fashion, cookery and health matters is definitely for you. A one-day event at Ballygarry House Hotel on Sunday, November 10, from 9.30am to 4.30pm, will be hosted by the show’s presenters Anna Daly and Simon […]

CHECK your tickets again folks! After a winning Euromillons Plus ticket was sold in Killarney gaining the lucky winner €500,000 just over a week ago, another winning Lotto ticket has been sold in the county. And it was sold in Garvey’s Supervalu Tralee, Lower Rock Street! People are asked to […]

THE inaugural Dingle Literary Festival (Dingle Lit) takes place in November with a great line-up of events and guests. Over the weekend of November 22-24, Dingle Lit celebrates and aims to enhance the cultural life of the Dingle Peninsula. It is a new, inclusive and accessible festival for adults and […]

I was walking down Denny St Tralee recently and I met a friend of mine and stopped for a chat. She was worried about her daughter who had just emigrated to Perth, Australia and she was very concerned about how she was getting on and also whether her two granddaughters […]

Gardaí in Killarney are appealing for witnesses following a serious collision involving a cyclist and a car. At approximately 11.30am a male cyclist in his 30s was seriously injured when he was struck by a car on the N71 at Eric, Molls Gap. He was removed by ambulance to University […]